Quotes About Illusion

We always want to congratulate ourselves at having made more progress than we actually have.

When you look at C-3PO and Darth Vader and then look at the actors behind them, you can't really make the connection. It kills the magic.

Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes.

It's true that I am surrounded by beautiful women in the movies. But the romance is only on screen.

I used to have a recurring dream where I was at a party in a country house, surrounded by the same people each evening. Everyone would be singing and dancing and after a while I came to know the people; though, of course, they never really existed.

Space enthusiasts are the most susceptible demographic to delusion that I have ever seen.

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

Honesty is wonderful, but I suspect it's also overrated.

I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.

We can suspend disbelief about Harry Potter, and we do the same thing with God, and we do the same thing with human rights, and we do the same thing with money.

One of the most difficult things in opera is for people to suspend disbelief.

The stage is suspension of disbelief. Film is a literal medium.

Cinema, which demands suspension of disbelief, is an increasingly naive proposition.

Everyone knows that a movie is false. But if as filmmakers we give the audience too many reasons to lose the suspension of disbelief, I believe we're working our way down a hole.

The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.

What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?

What I find funny are peoples' blind spots. That's the funniest thing about anybody - when they just don't realize who they are. What's funny about seeing a hippo do ballet is it thinks it's a swan.

It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.

They call me 'sweet,' and 'gentle'; and some of the men go the length of calling me 'endearing,' and I laugh in my sleeve and think, 'Oh, Lord! If you but knew what a brimstone of a creature I am behind all this beautiful amiability!'

People are not what they seem. Some of them are sweet and kind to you, but that's not their real face.

In film, if you've got to do a scene in a swimming pool, you do a scene in a swimming pool. If you've got to blow up a car, you blow up a car. In theater, you can't do that, and therefore, you have the opportunity to engage the audience's imagination in a way that's rich.

A lot of London's image never was. There never was a Dickensian London, or a Shakespearean London, or a swinging London.

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

One naively thinks that by winning the Olympics, it's going to be this switch, and then your life is going to be perfect, and that's not reality.